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sheshe2

(86,658 posts) Mon Oct 14, 2024, 03:56 PM Monday

Solar energy doesn't work at night because it is dark out. 🤦‍♀️🤪🤣

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) speaks against solar energy because “at night, it just doesn’t work.”

Fact-check: Solar energy can be stored in batteries for use at night, ensuring power supply.

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Solar energy doesn't work at night because it is dark out. 🤦‍♀️🤪🤣 (Original Post) sheshe2 Monday OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Monday #1

So Crenshaw would have no use for those solar powered yard lights. Permanut Monday #2

there are many storage strategies lapfog_1 Monday #3

But but Crenshaw pointed this out a million times! Shermann Monday #4

Well now we're screwed because fossil fuels don't work unless ya burn them! Think. Again. Monday #5

It's like the joke about the astronaut that wants to fly to the sun Norbert Monday #6

How rethug morons keep getting elected, I'll never know. brush Monday #7

Maga/GOP Don't elect the brightest bulbs. sheshe2 Monday #8

Gee, I wonder why the lights in my backyard and out front come on when it gets dark? Does Biden have some kind machine tulipsandroses Monday #9

Just when I thought that this fucking MAGAt couldn't get any loonier, MarineCombatEngineer Monday #10

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Permanut

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2. So Crenshaw would have no use for those solar powered yard lights.

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Mon Oct 14, 2024, 03:59 PM

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lapfog_1

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3. there are many storage strategies

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Mon Oct 14, 2024, 04:09 PM

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not just batteries.

pumping water uphill to a lake with electric generation station, lifting heavy objects and recapturing the energy by lowering those objects again, storing compressed air, and using the excess to spin very heavy weights and using the braking energy to generate electricity ( one of my favorites ). Yes, there is significant loss in doing this, but there is loss in many forms of electric generation... for example if you power plant is 100km away from where the energy is needed.

Not to mention that what is known as "base" load can be provided by nuclear or hydroelectric, and peak loads ( which are generally during the day for A/C and human activities like washing drying cooking etc ) can be solar.

Shermann

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4. But but Crenshaw pointed this out a million times!

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Mon Oct 14, 2024, 04:14 PM

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Proof by assertion, sometimes informally referred to as proof by repeated assertion, is an informal fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction and refutation.